4. I am further to add that their Lordships cannot allow the present
opportunity to pass without giving expression to their sense of the
loss which the Public Service must sustain by your retirement, and to
the hope that you may long enjoy the rest to which you are so justly
entitled.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
ROBERT HALL.
_Sir G. B. Airy, K.C.B.
&c., &c.,
Royal Observatory, Greenwich._
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ADMIRALTY,
_28th June, 1881_.
SIR,
My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have much pleasure in
transmitting copy of a resolution passed by the Board of Visitors of
the Royal Observatory on the 4th June last, bearing testimony to the
valuable services you have rendered to Astronomy, to Navigation, and
the allied Sciences throughout the long period during which you have
presided over the Royal Observatory.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
ROBERT HALL.
_Sir George Biddell Airy, K.C.B.
&c., &c., &c.,
Royal Observatory, Greenwich._
"The Astronomer Royal (Sir George B.
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